Love Out Loud – Nicole Gibson

I truly feel there’s only one way to change the world; that’s to transform ourselves. To connect to that deep part of you that realises your greatest potential, and understands your responsibility to give back to the world as the fullest expression of yourself – Nicole Gibson
 

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Sometimes I want to lead without being visible, and I know how much of a cost that can come at. I want to show up on social media – not for me, but for Love Out Loud and for my most importantly, for my tribe and for my team. After touring, and sometimes just in general, I struggle to. I feel like it's forcing myself, I feel an immense resistance. I'm the sort of person that needs a LOT of physical presence to feel met and understood. Coming back from four months of speaking on stages and running retreats across the world – giving immense amounts of love, patience, presence and understanding – it can sometimes feel like my body, my heart and even sometimes my spirit can go into a bit of a shock. Like I'm not sure how to explain, or connect, or ask. Dark thoughts usually always come in. Old wounds of not feeling understood or loved tend to arise again. I share this because I believe it's a demonstration of leadership. The more I work on my communication, the more I become aware of the areas I still remain silent and suffer in the shame and guilt of that silence. I never want to forget the 8 years I worked in mental health; the stigma that really does still exist – – How safe does it REALLY feel to be seen as imperfect? – How willing are you to REALLY communicate the REALITIES of what's going on under the surface, rather than rehearsed stories of vulnerability with a hashtag #authentic next to it? – How received do you REALLY feel when you don't have it together, and nothing makes sense? – How able are you of not feeling like a burden, or judging someone else as one? See, these are the measures of our humanity. The human spirit. I do have darkness that I battle, every day. I see things and feel things I don't yet have a language for. There's things in me I don't yet know how to get out. This creates shadow, and I have plenty. Because my potential is so immense. What I do know, so deeply, though, is the human spirit is so precious. We are flawed. Many of us feel parts of our bodies, and psyches and hearts are still broken. Some are, and we don't even know it. Continued in comments…

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In Australia, I’m known as a multi-award winning social entrepreneur, but I prefer to see myself as an unstoppable messenger of love and human potential. Join me on my mission to gain collective participation in conversations that offer the new possibility and new vision; let’s turn up the love – In her own words from https://www.nicolegibson.com.au/

When Nicole was 18, she set up a not-for-profit organisation, was a finalist for the Young Australian of the Year at 20 years old, and was one of Australia’s top 100 most influential women at 21, shortly after receiving the Pride of Australia Medal. She’s been honoured with the front cover of The Financial Review, and was featured in a documentary that aired on prime-time TV, and if that is not enough, she is also a passionate ambassador for mental health awareness after struggling with anorexia nervosa while she was a teenager.

Over the phone, Nicole was very generously able to chat with me, this is what she had to say:

My name is Nicole Gibson, I’m 26, my vision at the moment is to Love out Loud, which I am the CEO of. Our mission is to positively impact 350 Million people – or 4% of the global population by the end of 2020. When I wrote my book Love Out Loud, it was very much speaking to the reality of everyday life and how we can find the love in ourselves, which grew into this huge movement with retreats and working with ambassadors and influencers.

Through the process I found this passion to be a messenger of love. I was presenting at a conference once and there was a man that I had met years ago on a flight, who became an investor.

Nothing is going to change until we do, that is why I wrote Love Out Loud. No matter what stage in life you are in, it is applicable. As for who inspires me, whoever chooses love, and be open and vulnerable. Community members who live this way inspire me just as much as the prophets.

I feel Australia has a lot to learn in the way of innovation and community-connectedness; much of our population lacks spiritual education and awareness and personally, I feel this a significant contributor to our high-rates of suicide and mental illness – Nicole Gibson

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It’s always been important to me to leave breadcrumbs as I walk this path, so that where I am and where someone is at the start of a journey never feels too far away. It astounds me where following your dreams leads you; the people you are lead to, the opportunities, the abundance, the synchronicities, the challenges… all of it is so perfectly orchestrated. When you commit, it’s like jumping down the rabbit hole – it’s a whole different reality strung together by your imagination. You become aware that you are the creator. You can create anything. There’s nothing I don’t believe I can’t experience in this life; teleportation, psychic abilities, intergalactic interactions and missions – when I sit with these things, there’s a knowing in me that it’s all possible. I’ve stretched and trained and fed my imagination. It’s the biggest ingredient. Do you struggle to believe? Struggle to vision beyond what’s right in front of you? 3D reality is such a trap! Reality is NOT static, it just appears that way when you’ve never challenged it. Everything is moving, controlled by our perception. I play all the time, shifting and changing what I see into what brings me joy and expansion. Challenges into opportunities, pain into beauty, rejection into clarity… it’s all fluid. YOU just need to realise it. #imagination #play #loveoutloud #followyourdreams #inspirationalwords

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